That surely makes it odd to fix its budget now for so many years ahead.

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It occurs to me that forty-odd years ago I was pushing Olivier around a toy theatre on a wire, and now I have his job.

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Even so, seven years after the crisis, and with growth in the emerging East Asian countries now strong, it seems odd that investment is still so weak.

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